24 Akbar Road A Short History of the People Behind the Fall and Rise of the Congress by Rasheed kidwani Free EBook Epub,Pdf, Mobi Download

Now updated with a new chapter on Rahul GandhiThe Congress party
has always stayed one step ahead of the opposition by constantly
reinventing and re-aligning itself to stay in sync with the political
realities of the day. Its president, Sonia Gandhi, pulledoff a
master-coup in 2004 by declining the prime-ministership, while the
incumbent Congress Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is the first prime
minister since Nehru to lead the party into two Union government terms.
In 2013, Rahul Gandhi was elevated to the post of Congress
vice-president amid much fanfare and optimism. Tasked with reviving the
grand old party, the young politician remains, in the minds of many,
the best hope to lead the Congress into the next century, marking a new
moment in the Congress’s concept of ‘continuity with change’. In his
bestselling book 24 Akbar Road, seasoned journalist and veteran Congress
watcher Rasheed Kidwai puts together an incisive and engaging account
of the Congress’s shape-shifting nature and its tenuous hold at the
Centre, providing a dispassionate observer’s glance at affairs within
the Congress. Kidwai brilliantly tracks the story of the contemporary
Congress in the years after the Emergency, using the Congress seat of
power at 24 Akbar Road as his vantage to draw a compelling account of
the Congress leadership from Indira, Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi to
Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri, to the present-day trinity of Sonia
Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi. In this revised and updated
edition, Kidwai analyses Rahul Gandhi’s appointment to assess what the
Congress needs to do to remain India’s nerve of power in the coming
years, and whether the new vice-president can rally the party to a third
consecutive victory at the Centre.